Release-rigging for car-couplings.



W P. MURPHY. RELEASE RIGGING FOR CAR COUPLINGS.

APPLICATION HLED NOV-10.1915.

Patented Jan. 14, 1919.

2 SHEETS-SHEET L Mu/m ATTORNEY-f W. P. MURPHY.

RELEASE RIGGQNG FOR CAR COUPLINGS.

APPLICATION mu) NOV. 10. ms. v

1,290,97 Patented Jan.14,l919.

2 SHEETSSHEET 2.

'ATTORNEYJ,

22% @215 wfwm 55' may came mi Be it known that E, VVALEER a citizen ofthe United fatetes, residing at Chieege, in county 0f flock and Stew #3:03? li'ilineis, have invented eeytein new am? useful Improvements inii-eleaeeTF fer Car-Couplings, 0:? which. the 1 is espeeifieaeien.

.My inventien relates t0 releeee 1'? im 01 apparatus for", pulling theEocking geie.

e car eeupliiw, @ne 0f the principal ebjeees 0f invention is to previciea. lefise ging which will be simple and inexpensive medie eff stmng anddurable parts, and which will Foe pesi'kive and efiieient in ite eperie%i@n.,

1% hes been common in the to err 1210; on? *eighe ears .eeieese 11g seneletmg m: a red z'eveluhi me'i'mtedi on the ear with em enfl beni'c beferm Hid iii envl the ether m "Ewan a tegemer with (21min which conneetsthe ieeking pin of ceupler with the crank. fievieee of this; sort haveproved very ebj'eckieimbie f0? reesens which are Well uneiersteod bymiireefii men midi have been generally cemiemmecii. Une mi? the ebjeeesof my invetntien is e utilize old equipment with as Iiiec'i'e eizengepossibie, but 130 medif i" the subsficmien for the chain of e :ciggg'ic?fink The appm'aibus thus medifieri is W11 E3 free frem Hie ebjectiens t0the 01d type (2% r5 as will be e eperent from the ti e'flewingdescriptien, 3% is not he be uneiereieeci, hm ever, time the invemfiionis limited in applieafien fie the meat, The principles of my inventionmigh be nizfiizexi in connection with newly 2e manufae'tmefi apparatus.

The invention misc colliempiete ably, fliaeugh not necessarily,eensirueting one er both 0f the brackets "which support the operaif'imgred 01" fiever s0 that the levelsmay be remeveciitherefmm, anfl, furtherthe construction (if the cenneefing link in such mamker Heart when theiever in peeition in file brackets the cenneefiilrag' "ii-n3: cam not beciisengegrefl 'Emm "cheyye the ind e i119; pin; disconnection,hewev'ez'. being-pee sible when the rec? is removed free; we 01" both 0ffile brackets. Furehez'more, file eenmedian-between flue Fink and theiever ie such that the fink cannot reediiy 6ie- 5 tacked from the lever.I

by eompeiling the repair mm m eeme ve manufacture, which can be meme 1'1' This arrangemeet,

lever frem b122e 1- tile eeupier 7L, m prepez repiaeemem might be ieiisengageei were an: and 70016. e]: either men 23?? W The invention iserred embeehmen?) drawings,

2 is e V] the pesn'mn m ease A is fmgme $1 1 1. i is a Inhece'eeeitv eUTE I is a m foim center 6 is a 'ViBW, in eemaeetingg' Hui: end-thelocking" pin 0'" 9 Fig. a A m seemen e1 me hke earns m a is mrmer'i WW1H19 a i a adapted for engagement :Wlth a coupler lock formed at one endwith an open, spirally and formed with a loop 'at the other end, formedhook and at the other With a loop, 10

the end of said crank belng provided with a the end '0"? said crankbeing provided with a rounded seat slidably engaged by said loop roundedAS831) engaged within said loo for and with a stop at. the outer endthereof. preventing the axial rotation of said link 4:. A releaserigging comprising an operand with stops on opposite ends of said seat;

ating rod havin a crank, means for revoluv bly supporting 5m same on acar, and a link WALTER P. MURPHY. 1

